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Macy's Inc (M): Today's Featured Services Laggard

Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model.

Macy's (
M) pushed the Services sector lower today making it today's featured Services laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Macy's fell 60 cents (-1.6%) to $37.05 on average volume. Throughout the day, 5.1 million shares of Macy's exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $37.05-$37.85 after having opened the day at $37.61 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $37.65. Other companies within the Services sector that declined today were:
Newlead Holdings (
NEWL), down 13.6%,
China Auto Logistics (
CALI), down 11.2%,
InfoSonics Corporation (
IFON), down 11.1%, and
Education Management Corporation (
EDMC), down 9.8%.

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Macy's, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates stores and Internet Websites in the United States. Its retail stores and Internet Web sites sell a range of merchandise, including apparel and accessories for men, women, and children; cosmetics; home furnishings; and other consumer goods. Macy's has a market cap of $15 billion and is part of the retail industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 11.9, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 2.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are nine analysts that rate Macy's a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Macy's as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, revenue growth, notable return on equity and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.